In this article I examine Bourdieu’s conception of symbolic domination as based on misrecognition and compare it with Gramsci’s notion of hegemony based on consent. Drawing on ethnographic research in workplaces in the USA and Hungary I show how both theories are flawed. Gramsci does not appreciate the importance of mystification as a foundation for stable hegemony in advanced capitalism while ...

China’s political influence is growing in tandem with its economic and military might. The rise of China triggers significant changes the regional global order. As material power increases, it poses a serious challenge to hegemony USA almost every field. It unclear whether China's advances many kinds parameters will lead change predominance. Although has made progress hard power, not shown same...

Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal corporate embracement of gender equality sexual diversity, (neo)conservative anti-gender mobilization other. In discourse, is commonly seen to be backed up disseminated by global corporations. Thus, time when nationalist ultra-conservative movements are increasingly challenging he...

The neo-Gramscian scholarship locates the agency of common sense in reproduction hegemonic world order but under-theorises underpinnings for dissimilar subaltern responses to sense. This article draws on insights from Gramsci and anti-colonial thinkers unpack three analytical categories investigating consent dissent orders. These offer a tripartite framework which maintains central theoretical ...

Postcolonialism, in recent years, tends to subvert dominant ideological discourses order dismantle the Eurocentric epistemological constructions. In this context, Postcolonialism engages itself with Marxism as a metanarrative, speculative Other. contest Western hegemony, intersects Postmodernism unified skepticism and hence, maintain notion of difference within emancipation. The study deals Tar...

Difference is not an epiphenomenon of socio-spatial relations, but a genuine worldmaking driving-force, provided that it the handling difference paves way to specific interactions end up shaping society and, ultimately, space. There exists merely ‘a world difference’ because, and out of, differences. This article offers neo-Hegelian analysis spatial basis politico-economic ethnic-social differe...

Transition scholars are increasingly addressing questions of power and politics in their explanations the direction form sustainability transitions. Drawing on insights from neo-Gramscian scholarship to enhance conceptualisation transitions, we develop a theoretical account how combinations incumbent actor resistance accommodation contribute regime stability change. We use this understand firms...